Project tiftanglen || Neteyam

4

^^ how Kreyp looks

 [navi is italics]

Tarians eyes blinked open groggily, the leftover tears in his eyes making his vision blurry. Kreyp had gone somewhere, but they were bonded, he hoped she would respond to his calls. The first thing he made out was a crouched figure standing near him, head bent to the side, looking at him weirdly, mainly at his arm that was bent back weirdly and limp, having been shut off right before Tarian had fallen asleep, he was curled up in a ball with his tail wrapped around his waist, so it was understandable, he guessed, the person was average height and male, he guessed that they were his age. The navi pointed their blade towards him
"who are you?" they shouted in english, the accent familiar, Tarian knew navi, it was his first language, the language Felix raised him with, english was the second, but he spoke it so much it was embedded into his head almost as much as navi.
"Shit- Daywalker-" it slipped out, he felt his hand reaching to do the salute, quickly stopping it, it was his full codename given to him as a way to keep his identity a secret, everyday in drills they would be asked that questions, and one slip up meant more training, the navi, looked at him, eyes blown wide
"You!" and raised their finger to their neck

"Me? Shit!-", shit- shit fuck they have comms
"Devil dog this is pathfinder, theres a navi here, looks to be a dreamwalker goes by the codename daywalker" after a few seconds they nodded, speaking again "We're near old home tree, they don't seem to be running anywhere-" as they said that Tarian flipped out, and started scrambling for footing, the navi looked at him, pressing the comms again
"They're running!" Tarian was a hard man to scare, even now he was only running cause he didnt want to be sacrificed for some voodoo shit, but these were the very people from who he was based on, his whole life he wanted to meet someone like him that didn't become human when they fall asleep, and now he was running. Tarian started creating noise, letting out bird like echoes in hopes to call for Kreyp, the navi looked at him like he was stupid, but their faces dropped when a huge purple ikran appeared above them, looking at Tarian with slight fear in their eyes, had the sky people tamed ikran?

Kreyp lowered under the trees in the little clearing that the unknown navi was chasing her rider through, grumbling before getting as close as possible to Tarian who jumped on her back clumsily and joined their que's together.
"Dad! They've got an ikran! They're right above me!"

The short moment of relief Tarian felt when he finally left the clearing and leapt with Kreyp into the air, scratching her neck, smiling slightly. She crooned a bit, a tad upset that this na'vi had interrupted her extended breakfast.

"Good girl, thank you" He muttered, looking to his side to make sure no one was trailing him.

They where, shit, shit shit- he looked again at his pursuer, a man, who at a second glance appeared to be in his maybe late 30's, who had long dreadlocks and- fuck this was motherfucking jake sully, god damn it. 

Shit. Jake fucking Sully. what the fuck do i do, shoot him?-

He reached for his gun, before realizing he didnt have one, the plant mission was supposed to be a one and done, not a gun worthy mission by any means.

"Fuck off!" He yelled, hoping that he would get the message. He didn't.

"Who are you!?" The man, who now Tarian knew as Jake sully yelled over the wind, Tarian groaned, telling Kreyp to try and evade him as much as was possible for an ikran only being ridden for the second time ever.

"What master do you serve!?' 

"The fuck am I supposed to say? Eywa?? Look man- Let's have a civil conversation man! I don't want to harm anyone!" He knew the sincerity was likely lost but retained hope, Sully remained quiet as a boulder, "Who are you!?" he yelled again this time reaching for his gun.

Tarians eyes widened.

"I can speak navi! Look man! We can both land and- talk- I mean no harm to you or whatever people you lead, please-" You could hear the rawness of his throat, he felt stinging around his body, focusing on his que, stress, that's what turned the pain on. This seemingly got to the man, who dipped down, soon followed by Tarian himself.

They landed near the old hometree, the way nature was reclaiming the former burt and dead land was beautiful,Tarian slipped off his ikran, tucking his left hand behind his back.

"You have one goddamn minute to explain yourself" Sully said, eyes sharp, hands grabbing his axe, pointing it to Tarian, which he took as his que to talk.

"I am Tar-" he was cut of
"I didnt ask your name! I asked who. Are. you." He was asking what he was to the RDA, Tarian couldnt blame him, ever since the war between sky people and navi, the chance of navi trusting you if you even act human was slim to none.

"I am 03- that's my uh, subject code and the name i am referred to" He leaned flashed his left shoulder to the man, who lightly cringed at the sight of the scar tissue in the form of an "03"

"My codename is daywalker, I serve directly under the General" That got a reaction

"Who?"

"General Ardmore" Sully's eyes widened

"Why are you here 03?" Tarian cringed at the codename, the brand warming slightly.

"I was sent on a mission, but I got spun up when an ikran chose me- when I realized what had happened I was on the forest floor panicking."

[got tired of the pov, first person Tarian pov]

The man, Sully looked at him, he was confused I guess.

"Why didn't you run back?"

I looked down at the ground, mouth dry and eyes darting up to Sully and down to the ground

"I- im not an avatar" He looked at me confused, looking at me as if telling me to continue

"I was made for them to refine the tech they were planning to use to make navi soldiers"

His ears pinned back, he looked around, grabbing onto his axe's handle even harder

"What?"

"Dont worry- Im the first and last successful, kinda, try. I came out wrong and they didn't want to risk creating any more of me" I stuck out my arm, the prosthetic shimmering in the sun. He looked at me, not in pity, but in recognition, he saw something in me I guess, I don't know why.

"What's your name kid?"

"Tarian"

"How old are you?"

"I'm 15, sir"

"My oldest, the one who chased you is your age. What did you name the ikran?"

He trusted me with his son's age? What's this guy's deal??

"...Kreyp" He looked at me, chuckling slightly

"Like the earth fruit?" I nodded, looking towards kreyp who walked to me, letting me pet her head. He chuckled, my eyes slightly lighting up. Suddenly he scratched his head and said

"Come on kid, follow me"

I smiled lightly, Climbing atop Kreyp, I was free, free from the experiments. And as Kreyp leaped into the air following Sully's ikran, for the first time my future looked nice.

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Kinda shite chapter ngl, idk whats up with me, 4 chapters in and writers block hitting, im gonna do daily updates [probably] but if i skip a day then its cause im tired and im a full time student who gets home at 7pm

-EB